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The concept of fairness and justice at work in organizations can be traced back to the 1960s, predominantly with the work of US-based researchers Homans (1961) and Adams (1965). Early research was dominated by testing equity theory and seeing some of its implications. However, the new sub-discipline of organizational justice really took off in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly with the work of Greenberg (1987, 1996, 2001, 2003) as well as the establishment of the journal Social Justice Research in 1987, which often contains articles about justice at work (van der Toorn, Berkics & Jost, 2010).
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Furnham, A. (2012). Justice at Work. In: Carr, S.C., MacLachlan, M., Furnham, A. (eds) Humanitarian Work Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015228_3
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